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[[Image:Antoschka.jpg|right|100px]]Born December 5, 1954 in South Western Siberia, Russia, Ekaterina Mikhailovna Mozhaeva dreamed as a child of becoming a ballet dancer. Unfortunately, a long childhood illness thwarted her aspirations—since ballet, if one wants to succeed in Russia, is a discipline for which training starts at an early age. Still, she wanted to perform, and when she recovered, friends suggested that she try the circus. So, Ekaterina went on to train at the Circus’s Studio at Kemerovo, a Siberian city in the region of Novosibirsk. There, she learned a variety of circus disciplines, and partnered with another student, Anatoly Evgenevich Lotishev (b. March 10, 1949), to create an acrobatic clown duet under the name of Anton & Antoshka (spelled "Antoschka" in German). They began performing together in 1973 in Novosibirsk. They soon became very successful; Ekaterina’s character, Antoschka, which comes out as a whimsical, mischievous, marionette-like tomboy, was immediately very popular with their audiences.... ([[Antoschka|more...]])
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[[Image:Antoschka.jpg|right|100px]]Miss Fillis was one of the greatest trapeze artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Like many of her most talented colleagues of that era, she was endowed with a remarkable strength, which she had developed working in her father’s horizontal bar act. She is remembered as the first woman ever to hold a handstand on the trapeze bar, a feat that has been replicated only by one of her father’s students, Maryse Begary. Yet, Miss Fillis was in actuality the second woman to do so: The first had been her sister. Miss Fillis was born Aimée Marcoud in Paris in 1891. Her father was a famous gymnast on the horizontal bars, Nicolas Marcoud, of the Marcoud-Banola Troupe. The Marcoud-Banolas (Marcoud and the brothers Banola) had an act that was a mixture of flying act and horizontal bars: Nicolas flew from his bars to the hands of one of the Banola brothers, who worked as a catcher. Aimée made her professional debut at age ten in her father’s act—quite an arduous discipline to learn for a little girl.... ([[Miss Fillis|more...]])
  
 
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Welcome to Circopedia,
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inspired and funded by the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation.

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MISS FILLIS

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Miss Fillis was one of the greatest trapeze artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Like many of her most talented colleagues of that era, she was endowed with a remarkable strength, which she had developed working in her father’s horizontal bar act. She is remembered as the first woman ever to hold a handstand on the trapeze bar, a feat that has been replicated only by one of her father’s students, Maryse Begary. Yet, Miss Fillis was in actuality the second woman to do so: The first had been her sister. Miss Fillis was born Aimée Marcoud in Paris in 1891. Her father was a famous gymnast on the horizontal bars, Nicolas Marcoud, of the Marcoud-Banola Troupe. The Marcoud-Banolas (Marcoud and the brothers Banola) had an act that was a mixture of flying actAny aerial act in which an acrobat is propelled in the air from one point to another. and horizontal bars: Nicolas flew from his bars to the hands of one of the Banola brothers, who worked as a catcherIn an acrobatic or a flying act, the person whose role is to catch acrobats that have been propelled in the air.. Aimée made her professional debut at age ten in her father’s act—quite an arduous discipline to learn for a little girl.... (more...)

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